30-07-2026, 08:56 AM
Eggy is right: when a medieval artist was charged with drawing a Zodiac sequence, they didn't go out to the pastures to find the animals and draw them to match the local species as faithfully as possible. In the majority of cases, they'd simply retrieve examples from a sheet in a drawer or straight from another MS.
Draw Capricorn = draw Capricorn
Draw Capricorn =/= draw a familiar animal that looks like Capricorn
Of course, in non-Zodiac imagery, there may be better chances of identifying species. But for the Zodiac, it's all about games of telephone with a number of fixed traditional depictions.
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About the "rocky slope", it's interesting that the darker colored Aries walks on blue ground, and the light one on green. The VM has nothing that systematically functions as grey. Is the blue meant to approach grey rocks encountered in an example?
Draw Capricorn = draw Capricorn
Draw Capricorn =/= draw a familiar animal that looks like Capricorn
Of course, in non-Zodiac imagery, there may be better chances of identifying species. But for the Zodiac, it's all about games of telephone with a number of fixed traditional depictions.
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About the "rocky slope", it's interesting that the darker colored Aries walks on blue ground, and the light one on green. The VM has nothing that systematically functions as grey. Is the blue meant to approach grey rocks encountered in an example?
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